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Selective and Independent Control of Microrobots in a Magnetic Field: A Review
Engineering, 2023 Due to the unique advantages of untethered connections and a high level of safety, magnetic actuation is a commonly used technique in microrobotics for propelling microswimmers, manipulating fluidics, and navigating medical devices.
Min Wang +4 more
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Design and Control of In-Vivo Magnetic Microrobots [PDF]
, 2005 This paper investigates fundamental design, modeling and control issues related to untethered biomedical microrobots guided inside the human body through external magnetic fields. Immediate application areas for these microrobots include cardiovascular, intraocular and inner-ear diagnosis and surgery.
Yesin KB, Exner P, Vollmers K, Nelson BJ
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System integration of magnetic medical microrobots: from design to control
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Magnetic microrobots are ideal for medical applications owing to their deep tissue penetration, precise control, and flexible movement. After decades of development, various magnetic microrobots have been used to achieve medical functions such as ...
Junjian Zhou +14 more
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Pros and Cons: Magnetic versus Optical Microrobots [PDF]
Advanced Materials, 2020 Abstract Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to‐reach small spaces noninvasively toward disruptive medical, biotechnology, desktop manufacturing, environmental remediation, and other potential ...
Sitti, Metin, Wiersma, Diederik S.
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Collaborative Magnetic Agents for 3D Microrobotic Grasping
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Untethered microrobotic grasping has enabled the precise manipulation of small components in difficult‐to‐reach environments. However, the fabrication of deformable grasping robots at small scales requires advanced materials and fabrication technologies. Alternatively, multiple microrobots can be used to surround and grasp objects.
Piñan Basualdo, Franco, Misra, Sarthak
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Advanced Science, 2022 Magnetic microrobots can be miniaturized to a nanometric scale owing to their wireless actuation, thereby rendering them ideal for numerous biomedical applications.
Armando Ramos‐Sebastian +2 more
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Trimer-like microrobots with multimodal locomotion and reconfigurable capabilities
Materials Today Advances, 2022 Despite the growing interest in the motion mechanisms and application potential of individual active colloids/particles in micro/nanorobotics, their aggregation for higher-ordered mesostructures remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of ...
S. Yu +7 more
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Impact of Segmented Magnetization on the Flagellar Propulsion of Sperm‐Templated Microrobots
Advanced Science, 2021 Technical design features for improving the way a passive elastic filament produces propulsive thrust can be understood by analyzing the deformation of sperm‐templated microrobots with segmented magnetization. Magnetic nanoparticles are electrostatically
Veronika Magdanz +7 more
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Micromachines, 2019 In this study, we analyzed the vertical driving performance of multiple connected magnetic wheel-driven microrobots when moving up and down a small cylinder that simulated a pipe. The dynamics of pipe climbing by the magnetic wheel-driven microrobot were
Munehisa Takeda, Isao Shimoyama
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Enhanced Locomotion of Shape Morphing Microrobots by Surface Coating
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Mobile microrobots with shape morphing capability show great advantages for conducting tasks in complex environments. Combination of magnetically driven locomotion and stimuli‐responsive shape morphing is an effective strategy to realize these ...
Suchun Ji +4 more
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